VOYNICH  IN  FLORENCE. 

WILFRED  VOYNICH  is  in  Florence, 
Italy,  and  aided  by  a large  corps 
of  assistants,  is  cataloguing  the 
famous  Franchesini  library.  Mr.  Voynich 
understands  eighteen  languages,  and  his 
knowledge  as  a bibliophile  is  well  known. 

Owing  to  his  arrival  in  Italy  when  the 
owner  of  the  library  was  selling  valuable 
manuscripts  and  books  by  weight  to  be 
used  as  waste  paper,  he  purchased  many 
unique  books.  The  catalogue  he  is  busy 
on  is  being  looked  forward  to  with  great 
interest,  as  it  is  expected  that  many 
missing  volumes  dating  back  in  the  Mid- 
dle Ages  will  come  to  light  through  Mr. 
Voynich’s  work.  , 

Mrs.  Voynich,  his  wife,  is  an  English- j 
woman,  who  also  has  knowledge  of  many 
languages,  and  whose  novels,  including 
“ The  Gadfly,”  are  well  known. 

Mr.  Voynich  is  one  of  the  leaders  of  the 
Russ  revolutionary  movement  in  Russia. 
The  family  estates  in  Poland  were  con- 
fiscated during  his  father’s  life,  and  Voy- 
nich himself  was  imprisoned,  for  political 
causes,  at  fourteen.  He  spent  several  years 
later  in  the  dungeons  of  St.  Peter  and  St. 
Paul,  which  is  St.  Petersburg’s  state  pris- 
on, and  it  was  while  there  that  he  began 
his  language  studies. 

From  this  prison  he  was  taken  to  Si- 
beria, to  escape,  and  be  recaptured.  Sev- 
eral years  later  he  succeeded  in  making 
good  his  escape,  and  later  made  his  home 
in  England. 

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turin,  Grant  Mitchell,  Thomas  J.  Kelly 
Gertrude  Berkeley,  Suzanne  Perry,  an 
Lois  Frances  Clark. 

“Agnes,”  the  play  in  which  Nanc 
O’Neil  will  star  at  the  Majestic,  Is  a^ov 
story  of  distinctly  modem  type,  and  r« 
volves  about  the  wife  of  a young  millior 
aire.  The  opening  act  takes  place  o 
board  a yacht  belonging  to  Geoffre 
Marshe,  an  Australian  millionaire,  wh 
has  married  Agnes,  the  -daughter  of  Mr 
Belgradin.  The  marriage  is  the  resu 
of  a scheming  mother,  who  has  persuad* 
her  daughter  to  accept  Marshe  on  accour 
of  his  great  wealth,  and  incidentally  1 
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